the thing i like about november is contrast.

it's a month of highs

and lows.

(this year's were some huge ones.)

riding out the changes

isn't easy.

it's worth it, though.

today i watched sky drama

on my way to my house from home.

a murder of crows tilting through the sky

calling out teasing

and keeping their distance as a bald eagle flew through it all

and landed in a tree.

there eagle stayed and waited them and eventually me out.

blue jays called, so did a pileated woodpecker,

but still eagle waited.

i drove on.

at home i noticed my barn had leaned a little bit more

changing profile in the sky.

november's almost done.

i am turning a decade tomorrow, too.

changes.